Looking at – and seeing – the world
October 23, 2019 2 Comments
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After an early shower, the sun rises above a children’s playground and autumn is just around the corner.
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Technique: TG-5 at 80mm (equiv); 100 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Portrait profile; south Bristol; 29 Aug 2019.
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October 19, 2019 7 Comments
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Due to my carelessness, this picture is most probably not sharp. Thinking of other things (Full English Breakfasts … probably …) I loosed off at 1/13th second when using a 100mm equivalent telephoto >>> and later could only hope that the camera image stabilisation would make it all right. Anyway, whether said stabilisation has done the job or not, this is my only shot of the scene and here it is!
So >>> walking beside a blaring main road and glancing eastwards, I liked the contrasts between the first faint pinks of the sunrise and the various colours of the house lights. The Outer Suburbs were awake and preparing to take on whatever the day might throw at them!
Other images in this Early Morning series – from both rural and urban settings, and from Kenya too – are here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 .
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 800 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Portrait profile; south Bristol; 3 Oct 2019.
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October 16, 2019 9 Comments
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Sunrise glances across a trim front garden in the outer suburbs. The baby bushes, all in a row, are lit by its welcome radiance.
And there is a little fence too which, while hopefully not bereft of any hint of the ornamental, is basically the symbolic barrier between two privately owned residences. The fence casts a long shadow, as well it might in this materialistic world.
There are earlier Modern Housing posts here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . Each will open in a separate window.
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Technique: TG-5 at 49mm (equiv); 400 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the B&W 03 profile; south Bristol; 18 Sept 2019.
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October 15, 2019 14 Comments
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I am The Light
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The Crossing of the Striped Horse
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October 13, 2019 10 Comments
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Its that time of year again, and big House Spiders have started appearing here and there chez nous; this one was on the wall of our hallway at night. There no sense of scale here but – particularly with that wonderfully outstretched, hairy leg – this one can’t be far short of 2 inches (5 cm) across.
A great Natural World enthusiast, I’ve had a lot of wonderful encounters with wildlife over the years, particularly – but far from exclusively – during 12 years’ residence in Kenya, where I worked as a safari leader for several years. I suppose my most memorable encounter was being with Mountain Gorillas on the Virunga volcanoes in Rwanda: we were on foot, they looked at us, we looked at them, and that was an experience both powerful and moving.
But, on a far more local scale, memorable encounters have happened here at home too. I’ll never forget offering my forefinger to a Red Admiral butterfly, motionless on our back lawn on a chilly autumn morning, and being enthralled as the insect climbed up onto my finger and remained there – perhaps glad of my slight warmth. And then again, with these big House Spiders, out of devilment I sometimes get down on the floor beside them and give them the gentlest of prods, which instantly sends them off into totally chaotic retreat >>> a valued and enduring memory is actually hearing one’s hurtling footsteps as it rushed across an A4 sheet of paper lying on the floor – magic, simply magic!
There is another recent spider picture here: 1 .
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Technique: TG-5 at 30mm (equiv), used in Microscope mode, which allows focusing down to 1cm; 1600 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Portrait profile; south Bristol; 21 Sept 2019.
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October 11, 2019 6 Comments
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Landscape – mostly vertical – with streetlights, traffic signs, trees, telegraph pole and early morning murk.
Other images in this Early Morning series – from both rural and urban settings, and from Kenya too – are here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 .
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 400 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 26 Aug 2019.
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October 10, 2019 8 Comments
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Front gardens >>> tasteful modern Minimalism perhaps >>> or yet another example of the ongoing subjugation of All Things Green to convenience and The Age of the Car?
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 250 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 19 Aug 2019.
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October 9, 2019 16 Comments
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Parked, claustrophobically; hemmed in by the blank, looming masses of the built environment, within which – we can only hope – warm domesticity universally prevails.
There are earlier images in this Parked Car series here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 . Each will open in a separate window.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 320 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 22 Aug 2019.
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October 8, 2019 6 Comments
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In hardly the most visually pleasing of surroundings, a low angle beam of autumn sunlight still manages to conjure a moment of magic as it sneaks in between the scarred walls of old garages and illuminates the single natural and visually appealing thing there.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 400 ISO; spotmetering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Portrait profile; south Bristol; 17 Sept 2019.
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October 6, 2019 9 Comments
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The wonderful exterior colour of the King William Ale House, a favourite watering hole of mine in Bristol city centre. An old pub, with good beer and comfortable seating – just the place for quiet afternoons of decadent imbibing and good conversation by those of us in the retired classes.
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Technique: TG-5 at 25mm (equiv); 400 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; rotation; Capture NX2; King William Avenue, Bristol city centre; 1 Oct 2019.
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